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I was bored.So I opened a bottle of cider and now I'm less bored.
What have you done this afternoon to make the clock tick a bit faster?
Alt Q:
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JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 15:36,
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I've looked at the list of beers available at the beer festival.'Cause that's what I'm doing this weekend, if you were wondering.
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No, right here in Sunny Hull.It'll be my first chancre to brandish my Camra membership card in public. I expect that there'll be women queing up to faint at the prospect.
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Mine's lapsed.......I'm not going to Chappell this year, but the only female I recall being impressed with my CAMRA membership there was four feet nine and had no front teeth.
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Heh.But the last monthly newsletter they sent out ..had a photo of two very attractive girls at the Earls Court Beer Festival and a report on how young women are becoming increasingly interested in ales.
They wouldn't lie to me would they? I'm expecting a host of young starlets to be present.
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It's a win-winEven if no pretty ladies turn up, you can still stay for a few beers.
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Sensible, positive, well-balanced...I'm not sure that the internet is the right place for you.
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One day I'll meet a girl like that.(
G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩€, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:26,
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I went to Angel and got aBurrito and had a Margarita in the park.
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So THAT'S what happened to Christmas 1986.You Bastard.
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Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 15:43,
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Good thanks. I got a breadmakerI'm very excited about this, and can't wait to get home and make some bread.
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I think I might have to go for an extra long run to justify the amount of bread I'm going to eat this weekend.*que fat al picture*
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I make very very nice cheese and beer bread in my machineEven nicer when you add some caramelised onions.
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Sourdough = King of breads!Unfortunately I don't think bread machines are so good at sourdough. The more expensive ones claim to be able to but I've heard it doesn't turn out so good.
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Well, they can probably actually cook the breadbut since you need a starter for sourdough it rather defeats the "fill and forget" point of a breadmaker.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:31,
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Agreed.Should have pointed out I meant the recipe rather than the cooking method ...
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I've long suspected that lemon zest in bread would be ace.Unfortunately, suspecting it is as far as I've got.
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Mmm, the smell of fresh bread in the morning.It's what puts the GREAT in GREAT BRITTUN
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Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 15:50,
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I bought a Big Trak on e-bayAs Santa never got me one.
It was rubbish.
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JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 15:59,
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I have thrown sponge darts at my co-workersAlt Q: Electric guitar for my 18th birthday. Still got it
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 15:42,
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I'd be more impressed with you keeping the guitarIf you said you were 118 years old, 'cos that would mean you'd have had it for ages.
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JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 15:59,
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Nice present from your mam/dad then?(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 15:46,
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I got the complete Calvin and Hobbes in hardback books for my 30th, that was pretty darn sweet.The worst present I ever had was a pink tea set for my 6th birthday from my Step-Gran.
I mean, I wanted a blue one, the bitch.
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Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 15:46,
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Fuck, I really want that Calvin and Hobbes bookI used to love getting stoned and reading Calvin and Hobbes
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I had a cookiebut now I'm so full it hurts.
I've been filing so the clock isn't ticking very fast at all. We did have a discussion about lapdancers and our favourite word for male genitalia though. Dick won.
Purple-headed yoghurt monster did not.
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Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 15:46,
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My ticket to Sonisphere last yearfor Christmas was a lovely present. But the present that brought me the most happiness was my own computer when I was thirteen. Wasn't new, but it worked well, had good specs and internet
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 15:48,
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good specs? Internet?I got a 48k Spectrum for my 13th Birthday.
I've never had a better computer.
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JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 15:57,
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I don't remember the specsjust how pleased I was with them.
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 15:59,
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When I was thirteenThe Internet was all just fields.
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JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:01,
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When I was 13even the fields were just all fields.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:04,
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in my dayfields were the internet
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:06,
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I'm so old my pussy is hauntedor something.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:06,
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^thisI got a Speccy 128k for xmas in 1986. Waiting ten minutes for "Spellbound" to load make my xmas that year.
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My last Speccy was the +2Then I got an Atari ST.
It was all about the games man.
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JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:00,
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Outrun on the ST. Fuck, yeah.(
the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:04,
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Space HarrierOr Operation Wolf.
Using a mouse like you would a gun? Brilliant.
Or Xenon 2 - a finer 'shoot 'em up' I've yet to play.
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JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:06,
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Indeed.I also loved Kick Off.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:06,
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Yeah.One of the refs was a right cunt though. It was a yellow for every foul.
Screech. That was the refs name.
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JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:07,
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My pal done the graphics for Operation WolfThe best games on the Atari were Dungeon Master, Carrier Command, Barbarian and Bubble Bobble.
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Has there ever been a shit version of Bubble Bobble?(
JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:08,
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TrueMaddeningly addictive, along with the aforementioned Kick-Off and Xenon 2. Operation Thunderbolt was ace too, I seem to remember becoming addicted to Populus and APB during the summer of 1990 when I was supposed to be revising for my GCSEs.
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Me and a mateHad epic games of Super Sprint. They'd last days.
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JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:13,
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Don't foget SuperCars too......I blame that game for my "D" in GCSE Computer Studies.
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Fuck, how could I forget.The daft wee tune in between races is burnt into my mind. I fucking LOVED that game. As you say, it was no big deal for games to last many, many hours. We had a system, whereby we only would upgrade 2 stars worth in each category, as the handling seemed to best, any more and the handling was shot to fuck.
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fuckXenon 2 was the absolute business
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:17,
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Brilliant graphics, Bitmap Brothers i believe.Also responsible for Speedball 2, which was the biz and Chaos Engine which looked lovely.
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all superb games(
Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:23,
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You're absolutely spot on......I have Xenon knocking about somewhere on WinUAE.
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Don't forget Bomb the Bass!Has there been a finer opening to a game since?
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JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:23,
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ah ah ah YEAH!(
Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:25,
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I listened to it the other day funnily enoughIT'S A MEGABLAST!
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:27,
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I'm going to have to go and look for a download of Xenon II this evening.(
JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:30,
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Turrican!Now that was an ace game... Played it and it's sequel to death.
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turrican 2 was incredible(
Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:29,
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We all wanted AmigasBut none of us had one (well, except one kid who had both a ST and an Amiga).
Whilst I could boast both a upstairs and downstairs shitter, at the time we all used to try and convince ourselves that the ST was better thanks to Soul II Soul doing something with MIDI and the ST.
Not that any of us understood what the hell this meant.
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JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:16,
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the Amiga was definitely betterthe standard argument was that the soundchip in the ST was like a squashed banana. I don't know why or what that means.
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:18,
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Pinball Dreamsand the subsequent sequels were amazing as well. Very annoying, but looked and played brilliant.
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oh my godI loved pinball dreams so very much. the train one was my best. I could rinse that motherfucker.
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:28,
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Nice oneIt was the futuristic cop type one on Fantasies that I played literally to death. Hours would whizz by in a multiball shaped sheen of sweat.
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Many happy hours were spent getting my Amiga to speakI used to annoy friends with it
"Ben fancies Lindsey Potter"
"Ian smells"
"Clive is gaaaaay"
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No, he isn'tIan did smell though and Ben definitely had the hots for Lindsey Potter, who IIRC became a bit of a hotty herself once she lost her braces.
It's a funny old world.
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Sensible Soccer on the AmigaCould well be the finest game ever produced.
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It's fantasticI remember how disgusted we all were when Sensible Soccer appeared on the Megadrive and they'd made it ridiculously easy compared to the Amiga.
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Remember a game called Moonstone?one of the best games ever made. Rock hard on the Amiga. Had all day sessions playing it and couldn't win.
Got it on the PC a couple of years ago and had completed it within half an hour.
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:24,
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LOLI got a pole and a hat and a corset last christmas LOLZ it was awesome. Oh my god I shuold totally facebook and text this event to others
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TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 15:49,
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Then I punched a goose into his face(
TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 15:52,
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Oh it's you againI don't know, with all these name changes we're going to have to start calling you Bert.
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He's been banned - it ain't gonna be Bert.(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 15:56,
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He'll be back in another guise(
TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 15:57,
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I want him to come to Davros' bashit might stop you kicking me in the head.
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I want him to come to that too*menaces*
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:07,
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He's already signed up.(
Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 10 Sep 2010, 19:25,
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*pokes*is that you, Badger?
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:05,
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I am off to my club in a minute so may have a glass instead of the bottle of Windhoek I was going to have(, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:10, Reply)
I'm going to fuck my sister in celebration.(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:12,
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Your full sister?You freak. Half sisters are where it is at
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:13,
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You missed me outof that list
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 15:59,
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Beause you're unique innit(
TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:41,
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My Aunt once bought me the worst Christmas presentSince I don't see her often, she decided to guess what kind of music I like, and therefore bought me a CD by some X-Idol-Pop-Factor-Star winner. I think I microwaved it.
I played Wii Golf for a while this afternoon. It didn't make the clock tick any faster, if anything it slowed it down.
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My nutty exgave me a mint original LP of 'Are You Experienced?', a USB turntable and a massive framed Pink Fairies poster that she actually had commissioned especially for me, for Xmas a couple of years ago. She also scanned a Thee Hypnotics LP of mine and had a tshirt printed with it. The presents were so ace it was a little creepy.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 15:59,
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She sounds like a keeperIf she wasn't such a stabby mentalist.
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JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:02,
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I dunnoLPs made out of mint don't sound like they'd be that good. Although they might freshen up the place a bit.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:03,
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Think of them as MASSIVE(
JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:06,
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I begining to reconsider who was the mad one in this relationship.Even if home T-Shirt printing is killing music.
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She did have a nice side.I'm not so dim as to have gone out with an unremitting arsehole.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:13,
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I kidnapped her mum until she agreed to go out with me(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:24,
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Good to hear that romance isn't dead.(
Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:28,
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Unlike her mum, who is now buried in a secluded corner of Canvey Island.(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:32,
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*trigger fingers*I've watched Oil City Confidential six times now and it gets better and better.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:48,
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Lee Brilleaux's Mum is ace.I think the style of it is wholly fitting to the band. I must confess that I hadn't realised how little I actually knew about them - just how bad things got for Wilko and how much his relationship with the others (particularly Lee) became. You can't help but be more fond of them after you've seen it.
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I won'tI'll just leave when I want to, due to not being daft enough to have a job with contracted working hours.
Alt A: The one that's given me the most use and pleasure is probably my skis.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:02,
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possibly my boxed set of every Led Zeppelin albumcan't remember many presents though
I got a spliff for christmas once. that was good.
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:15,
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I once got paid for a show I did with a Spliff.The weed/tobacco ratio was totally unfair.
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Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:42,
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I walk the dog for ninety minutes everyday, just got in from today's one.I've lost a stone without realising until a couple days ago though so it's worked out quite well.
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Sorer than Bert's sister's pre-teen minge, I'll bet.(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:26,
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It took me about five minutes to work out what the strikethrough was on my phoneIt looks like a 't' on this shit thing. Very good.
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Need any tipsOn handling your beast?
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JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:29,
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You've handled a few beasts in your time, eh Jeff?(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:33,
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Grrrr.... <makes tiger claw>You know it baby.
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JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:35,
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I got a bike for Christmas in about 1990.It was a BMX - but get this, right - it had a sound effects machine on it, operated by a little button on the handlebars. It could do lasers, or RADAR, or machine guns, or grenades.
It was fucking brilliant. I could do with one of them on my bike now.
HOLY SHIT IT WAS ONE OF THESE!
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Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:33,
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Nice. I was more a Grifter kinda guy, myself.(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:34,
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Yes, but when I was ten you were about 25.(
Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:39,
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When I was 10I was the size you were at 25.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:47,
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What, five-seven?Bloody tall person.
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Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:49,
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YES!What did you get in the end? When can you pick it up? Can we go cruising down Basildon? I mean, I'm sure you have a banging sound system to play tyoons on. And neon underlights.
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Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:54,
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There was a white version of much the same bike.I wanted one.
But my childhood bike ownership went like this.
Tommahawk
Strika (or Striker) - with a pedal back break (meaning I did the best skids)
Grifter
'generic' racer (5 speed)
A bigger racer (10 speed)
Then I was on my own, being a lad with a Saturday job, so I got myself a limited edition Saracen mountain bike which got nicked within 3 weeks of me having it.
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JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:38,
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My research suggests the white version was the arguably cooler sounding 'Vektar'(
Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:40,
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I managed to go through life without a BMXEven though I wanted one. My parents were off the opinion that I'd come a cropper and break my arm or something if I had one.
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JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:42,
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You horrible cunt.I loved that bike.
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JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 17:05,
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